[1] After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision,
saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your
reward. [2] And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and
this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me. [3] And Abram
said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the
heritage. [4] Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a
son of your body will have your property after you. [5] And he took him out
into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and
see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be. [6] And he had
faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness. [7] And
he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to
give you this land for your heritage. [8] And he said, O Lord God, how may
I be certain that it will be mine? [9] And he said, Take a young cow of
three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three
years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. [10] All these he took, cutting
them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the
birds in two. [11] And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent
them away. [12] Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on
Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. [13] And he said to Abram, Truly, your
seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people
who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; [14] But I will be the
judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from
among them with great wealth. [15] As for you, you will go to your fathers
in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last
resting-place. [16] And in the fourth generation they will come back here;
for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full. [17] Then when the sun
went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which
went between the parts of the bodies. [18] In that day the Lord made an
agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from
the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: [19] The
Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, [20] And the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Rephaim, [21] And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
